Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945
By: Seiji Shirane
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of col…
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1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Benjamin Franklin , None
3.86
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more
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"Never confuse Motion with Action."-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"When the well is dry we know the value of water"-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more
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4. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
By: Wendy Brown
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, educa… read more
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5. Naomi
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Anthony H. Chambers
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoni… read more
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6. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
By: Rana Mitter
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan For decade… read more
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7. A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s
By: Daniel J. Sargent
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision m… read more
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8. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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9. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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10. The Great Passage
By: Shion Miura , None , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-w… read more
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11. The Island of Dr. Moreau
By: H.G. Wells
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more
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12. A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
By: Mark Galeotti
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Russia’s epic and dramatic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's … read more
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"History always wins."-Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
"As ever, though, facts take second place when it comes to building narratives of power and authority"-Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
13. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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14. The Magician
By: Colm Tóibín
4.02
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more
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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
15. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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16. Orwell's Roses
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more
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"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
17. Scattered All Over the Earth
By: Yōko Tawada
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more
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"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
18. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads)
By: Moon-Ho Jung
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to … read more
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19. Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945
By: Seiji Shirane
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of col… read more
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20. The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World
By: Zack Beauchamp
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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